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Quakertown is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of 2020, it had a population of 9,359. [ 3 ] The borough is 15 miles (24 km) south of Allentown and Bethlehem and 40 miles (64 km) north of Philadelphia , making Quakertown a border town of both the Delaware Valley and Lehigh Valley metropolitan areas.
Location. Quakertown. NRHP reference No. 110002000 [1] Added to NRHP. April 20, 2011. The Quakertown Historic District is a historic district which includes most of Quakertown, Pennsylvania. It encompasses, 386 acres and 2,197 contributing buildings. [2]
From Quakertown to Center Valley, the pike has an old alignment west of the current designation on PA 309. [28] In the Quakertown area, the PA 309 segment of the pike averages a daily traffic of 18,000 vehicles. [27] North of Center Valley, the road is aligned as PA 378, Old Bethlehem Pike, and Old Philadelphia Pike, with an average traffic of ...
Pennsylvania Route 663. Pennsylvania Route 663 (PA 663) is a 22.13-mile-long (35.61 km) state highway in Montgomery and Bucks counties in southeast Pennsylvania. Its southern terminus is at PA 100 in the borough of Pottstown and its northern terminus is at PA 309 and PA 313 in the borough of Quakertown, where the road continues eastward as PA 313.
Designated. October 29, 1982 [ 1 ] Interactive map of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Bucks County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 646,538, [ 2 ] making it the fourth-most populous county in Pennsylvania. Its county seat is Doylestown. [ 3 ] The county is named after the English county of ...
The Lehigh Valley (/ ˈ l iː h aɪ /) is a geographic and metropolitan region formed by the Lehigh River in Lehigh and Northampton counties in eastern Pennsylvania.It is a component valley of the Great Appalachian Valley bounded to its north by Blue Mountain, to its south by South Mountain, to its west by Lebanon Valley, and to its east by the Delaware River and Warren County, New Jersey. [1]
History and architectural features. Built in 1772 as the first permanent residence in Quakertown, this historic structure is a two-story, 15 feet (4.6 meters) by fifteen-foot building with one room per floor. It was built using native fieldstone and has a half gambrel roof. It represents a simple colonial Quaker style of design.
Tohickon Creek is a 29.5-mile-long (47.5 km) [1] tributary of the Delaware River. Located entirely in Bucks County, in southeastern Pennsylvania, it rises in Springfield Township and has its confluence with the Delaware at Point Pleasant. It is dammed to form Lake Nockamixon.